Sen. Cruz made the comments at a weekend campaign visit to Iowa, vowing to find out “if sand can glow in the dark.” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D – MO) pressed Gen. Selva for his take on the proposal, prefacing it with concerns about civilian casualties in such an attack.

Gen. Selva appeared to concur, saying the strategy would feed ISIS’ narrative on an “apocalyptic war with the West,” saying such calls run counter to America’s national security interest and that the US military does not now, and will not in the future, engage in carpet bombings.

This is the second time in as many days the Pentagon has faulted a presidential candidate’s policy suggestions, though in this case it was prompted by questions from Sen. McCaskill. Yesterday, the Pentagon criticized Donald Trump’s call to ban Muslims from the United States on similar grounds, warning it played into ISIS’ recruitment message of the US being at war with Islam as a whole.

When I was young I thought the world of Jack Wild. Good looking, cocky, overconfident, be had everything. I was nothing like that. But look what happened to him? Look how he ended up?

Now something similar could have easily happened to me because I loved drink and drugs, but I had to go to work otherwise I would have ended out of a job and on the street. Now I had my mental health issues, but i had to say no and go home early, and get an early night's sleep. I had to leave my mates early who would carry on partying all night long. And then I had to go to college in the evenings to get a better job. It was shit, really, because I would have loved to have done more drink and drugs, but gee, I look terrific for my age!